CARSETHORN, village in Kirkbean parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
CARSK, place, 13 miles north-north-west of Lairg, in Sutherland.
CARSKEY, seat and bay in Southend parish, Argyleshire.
CARSLOGIE, old seat in Cupar parish,
CARSPHAIRN, village and parish on northern border of Kirkcudbrightshire. The village stands on Deugh rivulet, about 12 miles north-north-west of New Galloway, and has a post office under Dairy, a hotel, a parochial church with about 400 sittings, and a public school with about 76 scholars. The parish measures about 15J miles by 10, and comprises 54,624 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 11,339. Pop. 484. The western border includes part of Loch Doon, and the interior is much streaked with upland streams, exhibits great diversity of glen and mountain scenery, culminates on Cairnsmuir at 2612 feet above sea-level, contains a well-preserved Roman camp and a well-preserved reach of Roman road, and abounds in memories of the Covenanters. There is a Free church for Carsphairn and Dalmellington.
CARSTAIRS, village and parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire. The village stands about a mile north of Carstairs Junction, occupies the site of the Caledonian and Roman town Coria, and has a post office under Lanark, a parochial church, and a public school with about 170 scholars. Pop. 528. The parish contains also Ravenstruther village and most of Carstairs Junction. Its length is 7-| miles ; its greatest breadth 3 miles; its area 9820 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 15,737. Pop. 1955. The Clyde bounds the south-east end, and Mouse rivulet crosses the interior. The land is diversified by multitudes of sand knolls, of exceedingly various shape and size. Carstairs House, adjacent to the Clyde, is a chief feature.
CARSTAIRS JUNCTION, village, with railway station at meeting-point of rail-ways from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dolphinton, and Carlisle, 27| miles south-west-by-south of Edinburgh. It has a post office designated of Lanarkshire. It sprang entirely from the formation of the Caledonian Rail-way ; and it has ample buildings and appliances for accommodating and re-arranging railway trains. Pop. 888.
CART, river, formed by conflux of Black and White Carts, and running about 7 furlongs north ward to the Clyde, at 6 miles west-north-west of Glasgow.
CART, burn, running to the Lossie, in Dallas parish, Elginshire.
CART (BLACK), small river, running about 9 miles north-eastward from Castle-Semple Loch to confluence with White Cart. Renfrewshire.
CARTERBAR, east shoulder of Carter Fell, on mutual border of Roxburghshire and England. It is traversed by the public road from Jedburgh to Newcastle-on-Tyne.
CARTER FELL, mountain, 1815 feet high, one of the Cheviots, on mutual border of Roxburghshire and England, 9J miles south-south-east of Jedburgh. The famous skirmish of 1575, sung as the ' Raid of the Red Swire,' was fought on it.
CARTERHAUGH, meadow at confluence of the Ettrick and the Yarrow, Selkirkshire. It is the scene of the fairy ballad of ' Tamlane.'
CARTLAND, village in north-west of Lanark parish, Lanarkshire. It has a public school.
CARTLAND CRAGS, great chasm, traversed by lowmost reach of Mouse rivulet, in north-west vicinity of Lanark. It ex-tends fully f mile, in curved line, from east-north-east to west-south-west ; appears to be a rent through a tabular hill, caused by vertical earthquake stroke ; is flanked by perpendicular, fissured, rugged cliffs, with maximum height of about 400 feet on one side, and more than 200 feet on the other ; and shows correspondence of the two sides, face to face and part to part, in almost every crack and salience.
CARTSBURN, quoad sacra parish in east end of Greenock,Renfrewshire. Pop. 10,639.
CARTSDYKE, eastern suburb of Greenock, Renfrewshire. It was originally a separate village ; and it became a burgh of barony, and a rival to Greenock ; but it now stands compact with that town, and is part of the parliamentary burgh. It has a railway station, a Free church, and a large public school.
CART (WHITE), river, rising in south-east extremity of Renfrewshire, and running about 19 miles deviously, past Busby, Pollockshaws, and Paisley, to a confluence with the Black Cart.
CARTY, harbour on Cree river, 1^ mile south-south-east of Newton-Stewart, Wigtonshire.
CARVY, small affluent of the Don, in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire.
CARWOOD, seat and burn in Biggar parish, Lanarkshire.
CASH FEUS, section of Strathmiglo town, Fife. Pop. 698.
CASHOGLE, estate in Durisdeer parish, Dumfriesshire.
CASKIEBEN, seat, 9 miles north-west-by-west of Aberdeen.
CASSENCARRIE, old building, with tower, in Kirkmabreck parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
CASSILIS, railway station and mansion, 6 miles south of Ayr, Ayrshire. The mansion is partly modern, but chiefly an edifice of 15th century, belongs to the Marquis of Ailsa, and is the scene of the famous traditional story of Sir John Faa. The Kennedys of Dunure have been Earls of Cassilis in the peerage of Scotland since 1511, and acquired the Marquisate of Ailsa in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1831.
